Ok, today is day six with unrelenting chest pain. It started Tue, past and then Wed. it continued and worsened as the day progressed. At 5:00pm, my wife and son talked me into going to the ER. I have a history of coronary artery disease with four stents in the LAD.
The ER did the normal testing and found nothing, but due to my history and the amount of pain I was in and since the morphine was not helping at all they decided to send me to my cardiologist in Nashville which meant a two hour ambulance ride.
I get to the hospital, and get checked in and finally they give me dilantin (sp). It gave some relief for about an hour or two, but then it was back to where it was. The next morning I had my 15th cath which showed nothing wrong. So the doc decided it was GI related and referred me to have an EGD. Well guess what? It showed nothing. At this point they were ready to send me home. I was very unpleased and let them know. So they said they would do a CT the next morning.
The CT showed nothing, and I am still hurting with no relief. They sent me home with a script for Naproxen thinking that maybe it was due to inflamation.
The pain is still there and most of the time is a 7 or more. What can I do? How can I find a doctor that will not give up until something is found?
I am totally fed up with doctors and more so with the specialist who seem to have no time for me.
